Module 47 AP Psychology

Your friend's baby brother, Matt, loves to play with his pet cat. When he sees a puppy, he points and calls it " Mi Mi, " which is what he calls his cat. Matt is demonstrating Piaget's process of

• conservation

• accomodation

• cognition

• object permanence

• assimilation

If you showed a 2-year-old that you'd hidden a toy behind the bed in a model of her bedroom, she would not be able to find the toy in her real bedroom because she lacks

• analytical thinking.

• random thinking.

• critical thinking.

• schematic thinking.

• egocentric thinking.

Vygotsky called the space between what a child could learn with and without help the

• theory of mind

• zone of abstract logic

• zone of abstract reasoning

• zone of proximal development

• zone of developmental readiness

Which of the following is a current belief of researchers that differs from Piaget's original theories?

• Infants simply have less information about the world than older children and adults

• Object permanence develops earlier than Piaget believed.

• Infants learn more by verbal explanations than Piaget believed.

• Accommodation is a process that doesn't occur in young children.

• Schemas don't form until later than Piaget believed.

Which of the following cognitive abilities is possible only at the formal operational stage?

• Reversing arithmetic operations

• Using a theory of mind to predict the behavior of others

• Using hypothetical situations as the basis of moral reasoning

• Using symbolic thinking for pretend play

• Understanding basic physics to recognize impossible situations

Which of the following identifies children's difficulty seeing another's perspective?

• Abstract thinker

• Role player

• Egocentric thinker

• A child who understands conservation

• A child who demonstrates high mental operations

Which of the following would indicate that a child understood conservation?

• She would continue to seek a toy hidden under a blanket.

• She would " hide " in a game of hide-and-seek by covering her eyes with her hands

• She would believe that a clay snake would have the same amount of clay as the clay ball that was used to make it.

• She would recognize that 7 + 3 involves the same mathematical relationship as 10 - 7.

• She would be able to comprehend the logic of if-then statements

Give an example of each cognitive milestones listed below: object permanence, conservation, and theory of mind